RMT are now advertising crystal/shards - Shards need changed

[tuseroni]

"RMTs are selling gil, give us more gil"
"RMTs are selling shards, give us more shards"
i am waiting for:
"RMTs are leveling people, give us an automatic leveler"

[Midian]

"RMTs are selling gil, give us more gil"
"RMTs are selling shards, give us more shards"
i am waiting for:
"RMTs are leveling people, give us an automatic leveler"

couldnt agree more.

[Altanas]

Hopefully this problem goes away if we get Gardening to grow our own shards/crystals.

Given how many shards are needed for pies and cakes, I'm slightly concerned how many shards will be needed to make houses and furnishings lol.

I think base shard yield should be increased to say 5 shards. Also all mobs should drops shards/crystals (like in v1 they dropped according to their elemental aspect and their astral/umbral aspect)

The new crafting system is a lot faster than version 1 but shard farming is slower. Especially with Quick synthesis we run through shards fast.

[MissRoxy]

Shards are in such a bad place right now, you need so many to level up crafts and make stuff that even RMT have hopped on the market and are posting it in their advertisements. Please give more efficient ways to gather shards SE. We need too many to level crafts and consume too many for how few ways there are to get them.

Oh my, he's still there? I've seen him for days!

[Daemin]

I spend hours every day farming shards for my crafting. Mainly because, for the quantities I need, buying them from the market is just not an option. It is truly disheartening though, to see how many bots are farming them. I think I reported 3 or 4 today. They were there when I got to the farming point, and they were there when I left. Since they can literally teleport between nodes, they probably put in a lot more than I did. I figure in just 3 or 4 hours those guys had around 5000 shards between the whole of them.

I think a solution to both problems would be simple. Increase the yield on shards dramatically, but have it require player interaction. Not only it reduces the grind required, but it renders botting impossible. Everyone is happy.

[Kraun]

RMT's are the sole providers of shards on the market, you should just go farm them yourselves, avoid at all costs buying them from the market!!

Or if you truly are that lazy, buy from the ones that only have a few forsale, or only a stack, don't buy form those that sell more than 3-4 stacks of 100, that's a certified RMT bot-company

[Laume]

Maybe instead of buying shard from the markets, gatherer's should just rent themselves out. >.< Like "will farm shards. 500gil per hour" or something. (prices subject to change).

(half joking and half serious suggestion).

[Churchill]

Square Enix is currently allowing shards to be depleted, when enough of 1.0's stock are gone they will add in Alchemy/Fishing shard routes again. This will also coincide with some cooking changes.

[HealBus]

Cuz the repetitious monotony of clicking mineral nodes is a great source of enjoyment and self worth for all! Huzzah!

This so much. Currently a lvl 48 miner and the higher level stuff (cobalt and electrum) sells for less and is much less liquid than shards on my server. There is something seriously wrong with design when the profit potential is unlocked at level 1 and doesn't change over time.

[Myrhn]

I will farm shards for you if it take so much of your time, how much you pay me?